These E -mails are unedited uncorrected, in raw form , true mails received by me and replied by me to the Sinhala Linux group There are spelling errors , grammatical errors in my part. Please bare these errors as I am doing a one man show for the people of Sri Lanka and to protect my Sinhala letters (characters).

This Draft of Sri Lanka Standard has been prepared by the Sri Lanka
Standards Institution and is now being circulated for technical comments to all
interested parties.
All comments received will be considered by the SLSI and the draft if
necessary, before submission to the Council of the Institution through the
relevant Divisional committee for final approval.
The Institution would appreciate any views on this draft which should be sent
before the specified date. It would also be helpful if those who find the draft
generally acceptable could kindly notify us accordingly."

unquote

When SLSI requested public to send their comments WHY should the public apologise!!! You should apologise in public for asking public to apologise --- best joke for the year 2004!!! :-)

Even before the National Standared was made SLSI decided 128 locations and was registered in unicode as Sinhala

This is wrong act done by the side of SRI LANKA.

First we have to correct the SLSI in National LEVEL.

You spoke of two sets which are registered in Unicode (sinhala 0d80-0dff) +general punctuation 200C-200D

Also you are speaking of Set C.... Set N as an UNION of SETS

I did made my objection to the above draft and SLSI have not sent me a firm reply. My objections remain firm and valid.
With the SLS1134 one cannot use OCR , SMS , Voice to text , Text to Voice , unable to sort data in correct sinhala alphabatical order etc etc. TV and News papers made some comments and someone made them not to publish any article giving technical commnets on SLS 1134. I had no choice but to publish in www. akuru.org.

SLSI 1134 is incorrect as the figure one contain only limited number of Sinhala chaacters which is 0d80-0dff .

It is up to you to prove that SLSI is correct and Unicode (sinhala 0d80-0dff) contain all the available Sinhala Characters

If you do have any set or sets other than the 0d80-0dff & 200C-200D it is only for private use.

We got to correct the National Stadarded to protect the Sinhala Lanuages.

Unconditionally Sri Lanka National Standard has to be corrected.
Once this is done Nationally we can apply for Unicode registration.

Best

Donald

harshula wrote:

>On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 01:40 +0600, donald gaminitillake wrote:
>
>
>>Dear Harshula
>>
>>
>
>
>
>
>>Therefore unconditionally you have to redo the SLSI.
>>
>>Please admit there are errors which has to be corrected.
>>
>>
>
>Hi Donald,
>
>If we can show you why you are wrong in saying SLS 1134 is incomplete,
>will you publicly admit your error and apologise?>
>Regards,
>Harshula
>
>
>
>>Best
>>
>>Donald
>>
>>
>
>Hi Donald,
>
>Before we continue any further, please answer these two questions with
>an explanation.
>
>1) Can 0d85 encode a single Sinhala letter?
>
>2) Can 0d9a0dcf encode a single Sinhala letter?
>
>First say 'yes' or 'no' then explain why.
>
>Donald said: "This is where the problem is. All characters need
>individual locations as done in past Mono type etc. (see letter press
>lead characters)"
>
>No Donald, like I said before, this may have been the case a few decades
>ago, but it's not the case anymore. I am more than willing to explain
>this to you, but you have to be prepared to listen and participate by
>answering the two simple questions I asked.
>
>Regards,
>Harshula
>
>

Dear Anuradha Harshula Manju and The Professor

I do have this document and I have filed objection to this document.

Everything is condenced to figure one which you will never want talk.

Figure one is wrong it is incomplete UNICODE

also you talk of 200d which are joiners but where are the other characters!!!!

You always avoid this question.

you spoke of set c and set d

I know Linux has gone further than the incomplete UNICODE but we got to correct this.

publish the letters in the set c and D correcting the SLS 1134

It may go in for several pages similar to figure one

This is the full unicode for Sinhala

At least you have admitted that Sinhala UNICODE is incomplete. ( I am happy)

Once proved incomplete --- we got to correct it and amend it.

I do have all the sinhala characters technically little over 1660 with the badhi akuru

In my system your INDRA are located as two characters two different fixed addresses

I am trying to publish this table soon.

Using that table you will be able to write any word and also the software makers will be able to make many wonders to help the Srilanka to move forward in ICT

To access this will be done using QWERTY or someone can develop for wijesekara a driver with our recomendation

I have told Manju to look into this option and still awaiting a reply from him.

Sometime next week after discussing with Mr Delan We may be able to show you the prelist

There are two problems in the sorting order of Sinhala

Some go by word Ankura comes before aa

But some takes An to the end.

Second there are two new characters introduced recently by JB Dissanayake
For the sorting order where should we keep these two

These things should be openly discussed and amicably to be kept in a location

Also the public do have the right to introduce more new characters No one can delete any!!! but my set is based on the maharagama Sammatha Sinhala Akshara malawa

All these are listed in the Akuru.org. ---- other than the full list

This problem is there for all indic languages (that is why there is no OCR SMS Voice to text so on)

Devanagari and Bengali are redoing the table
Hindi will be the first to follow the individual characters

Korean had to redo the system, Arabic too re did the table

There is an enormous potential for the Sri Lanka IT industry once I do this table and the software to go with it.

Please remember I have the full copyrights and a pending patent

For the next three days I am out of the cyber world

Wish you all a Merry Chrismas!!

Best

Donald

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Dear Donald,

For a moment, can you please stop being emotioinal and shall we discuss facts?

You have only reviewed the sinhala allocation table in Unicode. We
have gone furthur and implemented it. And we didn't find any problems
in producing any Sinhala character.

Please tell me how one can produce the words in the attach image using
the 1660 characters (or glyphs) in your proposed "solution"? We have
already done it using Unicode. And I know that other implementors
(not only SInhala, but other languages in the region) also have not
come acoss problems when implementing Unicode.

Requesting to put all the shapes into Unicode is like asking to put
all the molecules into the periodic table!

Please let me or Harshula know if you have problems understanding the
math of the set theoretic explaiation of Unicode.

>>
>> Simple example is Hydrogen + oxygen gives us water.
>>
>> We have all these three elements.
>
>

See, you have misunderstood again. Hydrogen and Oxygon are elements
and Water is not: it's a molecule, and you get only the first two in
the Periodic table, not water. Nobody wants to have water in the
periodic table!

I have attached SLS 1134 to this mail if you haven't seen it already.
Please talk about the whole document, not about just one page
containing that table for allocating single code points.

For the betterment of Sri Lanka we all got to correct the SLS 1134 unconditionally and ASAP

best

Donald

Anuradha Ratnaweera wrote:

>On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 01:40:38 +0600, donald gaminitillake
><semage@mail.ewisl.net> wrote:
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>> Let me have the Set C and D from unicode.
>>
>>
>
>Set C and set D are derivatives of set A and set B. Please see the
>following technical report from Unicode consortium about the way they
>are generated. It talks about unions and subsets you wanted a link
>for.
>
> http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr17/tr17-5.html
>
>I think you are confused glyphs, characters and code points. Please
>read this article if you haven't done it already:
>
> http://www.unicode.org/standard/where/
>
>
>
>>Your Union is not listed. I enclose the pdf files from unicode for your
>>perusal.
>>
>>
>
>If you look at basic set theory, either a set can be defined by
>listing out all its elements (e.g.: set A and set B above), or by
>defining the way it is generated. The technical report above explains
>how this definition is done, and the paper by Dr Gihan and Aruni -
>which you have kind of miss-quoted on www.akuru.org - defines them for
>Sinhala specifically.
>
> Anuradha
>